Museum of Fine Arts (second) opens.

Architect: Guy Lowell. Designed in the Beaux Arts style, it is located on the former site for circuses and rodeos at today’s 465 Huntington Avenue. Six months earlier, the museum began moving its more than 110,000 pieces of art from its former home in Copley Square using only two horse-drawn carts. John Singer Sargent’s murals in the dome are completed in 1921 and in the stairwell in 1925. The Evans Wing is added in 1915, the Decorative Arts Wing in 1928, the George Robert White Wing, designed by Hugh Stubbins, in 1970, the West Wing, designed by I.M. Pei, in 1981, the Japanese Garden, designed by Kinsaku Nikane, opens in 1988, and the American Wing, designed by Norman Foster, in 2010. The effect of the numerous additions subsequently prompts Belinda Rathbone, daughter of a former museum director, to write, “Today the visitor to the MFA and many other American art museums is overwhelmed not by an imposing neoclassical edifice but by incoherence.”